{"id":261340,"date":"2025-11-04T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:01:08","slug":"bucks-117-115-pacers-4-nov-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261340\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks 117-115 Pacers (4 Nov, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS — \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> made a 17-foot buzzer-beating jumper<\/a> to give the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> a 117-115 victory over the short-handed Indiana Pacers<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo had 33 points, 13 rebounds and five assists on a night he went 14 of 21 from the field. Kyle Kuzma<\/a> added 15 points to help the Bucks win for the third time in four games, taking the first of four scheduled regular season matchups against a Central Division rival it has faced 22 times since the start of the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n

This time, though, longtime Pacers center Myles Turner<\/a> was dressed in a Bucks jersey after signing a free-agent deal in July. Fans serenaded him with boos all night, starting with a pregame video tribute that played even before player introductions.<\/p>\n

Turner had nine points, seven rebounds and five blocks while connecting on 3 of 7 shots and scoring only two points in the second half, a short, tiebreaking basket with 2:22 left.<\/p>\n

Pascal Siakam<\/a> led the Pacers with 32 points and eight assists. Turner’s replacement, Isaiah Jackson<\/a>, had 21 points and 10 rebounds. It was Jackson’s highest scoring total since a 26-point game in January 2022.<\/p>\n

Indiana eliminated Milwaukee in the first round of the playoffs each of the past two years and this one had the same kind of feel, with the score close throughout.<\/p>\n

And it looked the Pacers might steal another one when they charged back from an 11-point deficit with 6:08 to go, finally tying it on Aaron Nesmith<\/a>‘s driving layup with 14.6 seconds left.<\/p>\n

After calling a timeout, Milwaukee inbounded the ball to Antetokounmpo, who never gave it up before hitting the winner.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Bucks: At Atlanta on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Pacers: Host Brooklyn on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS — \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo made a 17-foot buzzer-beating jumper to give the Milwaukee Bucks a 117-115 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-261340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}